What do the "snap to grid" buttons do in the Inspector?
This is the handbook entry:
"Also in Inspector you can toggle the 'Enable snap to grid' buttons, resulting in the moves being in steps of a certain space fraction (the same steps as if using the scroll button in Inspector)" ("Align elements ").
As far as I can see, enabling "snap to grid" in the Inspector makes no difference to the way that you move, say, Staff text. If you press a keyboard arrow it still moves 0.1 sp. If you press [Ctrl] + arrow, the text moves 1 sp.
So what does "Enable snap to grid" do?
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From the handbook:
When selecting and dragging an element...
So, for Staff text, mouse dragging (not keyboard arrow) is in increments of 0.50 space - same increments as using the 'spin box' scroll button.
Regards.
In reply to From the handbook: When by Jm6stringer
Thanks. So, to summarise, the "snap to grid" function only applies to elements that are dragged.
In reply to Thanks. So, to summarise, the by geetar
Yes, so it seems...
The precision of the Inspector's horizontal and vertical offset is to 2 decimal places.
Using 'snap to grid' allows for more consistent element positioning when manually dragging - so that, for example, some score elements - e.g. to avoid collisions - are not dragged 1.18sp and others on the same staff 1.22 sp. All can be more easily dragged and aligned to a consistent 1.20 by snapping to grid.
In a score with a (very) large scaling size, with 'snap to grid' enabled, the *jerky* (rather than smooth) dragging motion is more obvious.
(And, of course, using arrow keys or Inspector offsets for fine tuning a score element's placement is probably the more preferred method.)
Regards.